A new interactive map produced by Cambridge University's Institute of Criminology plots each murder that occurred in early Medieval England to support research into the history of violence in London.

Medieval Murder Maps is an interactive website that gives insight into how people were killed in medieval London, York and Oxford. We are going to travel back in time now to medieval England, thanks ...

Medieval London was crowded, dark, and poorly policed. Violence was not an exception, it was routine. This video examines a murder map that reveals where killings occurred. The patterns expose how ...

The majority of homicides catalogued on the map occurred in public places, including crowded streets and markets Violence Research Centre/University of Cambridge It was the priest in Dunstan Parish ...

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There were many ways a person could meet a violent death in medieval London, from violent mob punishment (for littering eel skins) to getting wounded in a fracas (by a servant shooting arrows into a ...

Medieval Oxford’s “lethally violent” student population made the city England’s “murder capital”, a new crime map has revealed. Oxford’s student population was by far “the most lethally violent” of ...

In July of 1316, a priest with a hankering for fresh apples sneaked into a walled garden in the Cripplegate area of London to help himself to the fruits therein. The gardener caught him in the act, ...

LONDON — A saddlemaker ambushed outside a brewhouse. A man stabbed to death after he stumbled over a heap of dung while trying to flee a fight. And a priest killed by three knife-wielding assailants, ...

Oxford was the murder capital of late-medieval England, with the city’s male university population being the main catalyst for violence, according to new research. The homicide rate in the city was ...